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DATEV Selects WinMagic’s SecureDoc Full-Disk Encryption to
Protect Data on Laptops
SecureDoc’s Unique Design Makes it Simple to Integrate
Full-Disk Encryption with DATEV’s mIDentity Smart Card Authentication Tokens at
Pre-Boot
Nuremberg, Germany and Mississauga, Ontario, April 24, 2007
– WinMagic® Inc. (www.winmagic.com),
the innovative leader in full-disk encryption, today announced that DATEV eG, a
software company and IT service provider for tax consultants, auditors, lawyers
and their clients, is installing SecureDoc full-disk encryption software to
protect all data on company laptops. Nuremberg-based DATEV will also purchase
additional SecureDoc licenses to service its 40,000 member organizations (tax
offices, accountant firms, consultants, lawyers, etc.). DATEV selected SecureDoc
for its robustness and flexibility, including its unique ability to seamlessly
integrate with DATEV mIDentity authentication tokens with integrated smart cards
at pre-boot.
With more than 70 percent of all tax offices in Germany affiliated with DATEV
and about two thirds of medium-sized German companies’ financial accounts being
looked after by tax consultants using DATEV software, its initial purchase of
1800 SecureDoc licenses will primarily be rolled out to internal consultants in
26 Information Centres in Germany, its Information Office in Brussels, and
several associated offices in Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary,
Slovakia, Italy, and Spain.
“WinMagic was the only disk encryption vendor that was able to
meet DATEV’s strict requirements on security, usability and administration
functionality in the given time schedule,” said Horst Bachmann, Head of the
Communication and Security Products Department, DATEV eG. “It was clear from the
outset that SecureDoc’s ability to seamlessly integrate with DATEV’s existing
two-factor smart card authentication technology at pre-boot would make it simple
to add the full-disk encryption layer required to protect all data on laptops,”
Horst Bachmann continued. “Simple integration with existing security
applications has also made SecureDoc a very cost-effective method for adding
full-disk encryption.”
SecureDoc’s seamless integration with DATEV’s mIDentity tokens
results from WinMagic’s collaboration with major authentication vendors to make
it simple to combine the data security benefits of full-disk encryption and the
identity management advantages of multi-factor smart cards, USB tokens, PKI
certificates, and biometric devices at pre-boot.
“Unlike other encryption solutions, SecureDoc makes it easy to combine
multi-factor authentication with full-disk encryption at pre-boot, and that is
why security-conscious organizations like DATEV increasingly choose SecureDoc to
protect all data on desktops, laptops, and handheld devices” said Thi
Nguyen-Huu, CEO & President, WinMagic Inc. “When you consider that consultants
using DATEV software are responsible for the financial accounts for two thirds
of all medium-sized enterprises in Germany, or approximately 2.4 million
financial accounts, it is rewarding to think that SecureDoc has been selected to
protect such sensitive data.”
The vast array of tokens supported by SecureDoc v4.3 include the
Department of Defense’s Common Access Card (CAC), Oberthur CosmopollC Card,
ActivIdentity V3 Support, 02Micro USB Reader that comes built in with Dell
Latitude 620 and 820, Omnikey ExpressCard 4321 reader, Thales TVPN-08, IBM
JCOP41, Fujitsu STYLISTIC 5000 Series, NTT reader, and added support for the
onscreen keyboard of the Motion Computing LE1600.
True to WinMagic’s guiding principle that “whatever you can do
with an unencrypted disk, you should be able to do with an encrypted disk”
SecureDoc supports disk-imaging capabilities, defragmentation software and other
disk utilities, and hibernation mode. DATEV users can even resize partitions on
encrypted disks, or run repair utilities and perform data recovery on disks in
case of virus infection.
SecureDoc Enterprise Server edition also makes it simple for
DATEV to deploy and manage encryption for thousands of users. Remote features
permit adding, removing, or augmenting users and profiles as well as allowing
password recovery and integration with Active Directory and other LDAP servers
such as Novell.
About DATEV eG
The cooperative DATEV eG, Nuremberg/Germany, is a software company and IT
service provider for tax consultants, auditors and lawyers as well as their
clients. They are supported by DATEV mainly in the fields of accounting,
business consulting, taxes, enterprise resource planning (ERP) as well as
organization and planning. For example, financial accounts of about two thirds
of most of the German medium sized enterprises are carried out by tax
consultants using DATEV software - which runs up to roughly 2.4 million
financial accounts. For more information on products or services, please visit
www.datev.com.
About WinMagic Inc.
WinMagic’s SecureDoc software provides the world’s most secure full-disk
encryption. Easy to use, deploy, and manage, SecureDoc Enterprise Edition makes
it simple to combine full-disk encryption with user authentication at pre-boot.
Authentication is provisioned in a single- or multi-factor fashion including
password, smart card, TPM, hardware token, PKI, and biometrics. SecureDoc
protects data at rest for endpoint devices including desktops, notebooks,
external USB drives, and CD/DVDs. WinMagic’s data at rest solution provides
granular capabilities of end-user management at an enterprise level through
integration with MS Active Directory, LDAP servers, or PKI. SecureDoc’s
unparalleled robustness, operability, and performance allows for easy enterprise
deployments offering centralized administration with remote installation, and
password recovery.
Headquartered in Mississauga, Canada, WinMagic operates in over 43 countries.
For more information on products or services, please visit
www.WinMagic.com, call 1-888-879-5879, or
email info@WinMagic.com.
Press Contact:
Michael L. O’Keeffe
Communication Strategies, Inc.
Telephone: (416) 760-0100
mokeeffe@communicationstrategiesinc.net
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